by
Tom Pinnock
This
month’s issue of Uncut – in shops now or available
to order online by clicking here – comes with a free
CD entitled Cosmic Cratedigging, featuring 15 mindblowing
tracks from the vaults of top reissue label Light In The
Attic.
Since
emerging in Seattle in 2002, Light In The Attic Records
have specialised in spectacular reissues of undervalued
records by Lee Hazlewood, Rodriguez, Michael Chapman and
more. Yet they’ve also made it their mission to unearth
private-press marvels and the finest unreleased tapes,
resulting in fascinating releases by the likes of Donnie
& Joe Emerson, Lewis and The Supreme Jubilees.
They’re
one of our favourite labels, so for this month’s
CD they allowed us to raid their archives to assemble
these 15 out-there tracks: there’s psychedelic soul,
avant-garde pop, weird folk, kosmische electronics and
experimental jazz from around the globe, all somewhat
lost on original release. We hope you enjoy the journey.
Label
founder Matt Sullivan guides us through the treasures
that await you…
...14
Tim Buckley
“I Never Asked To Be Your Mountain”
A powerful and sparse demo of the Goodbye And Hello highlight
MS: Tim Buckley’s lyricist, Larry Beckett, and Jerry
Yester, the producer of Goodbye And Hello, held pre-album
acoustic demos from 1967 that LITA uncovered for the first
time. Larry told reissue producer Pat Thomas,
“Tim
did every kind of music. He could sing a country song
or blues or folk-rock, it didn’t matter. He loved
everything and he could have sung opera had he tried.”
Track
listing
1 Karl Schaffner & Lothar Grimm - Caravan 3:20
2 Betty Davis - They Say I'm Different 4:14
3 Roky Erickson and The Aliens - Bermuda 3:15
4 Lynn Castle With Last Friday's Fire - Rose Colored
Corner 2:36
5 Greg Mason - What Does It Take to Know (A Woman
Like You) 3:25
6 Shin Joong Hyun & the Men - Beautiful Rivers and
Mountains 10:04
7 Gigi Masin - Clouds 4:58
8 Acetone - Shore Power 4:33
9 Jim Sullivan - U.F.O. 2:48
10 Donnie and Joe Emerson - Give Me the Chance 2:54
11 Karin Krog - Lazy Afternoon 4:36
12 Supreme Jubilees - It'll All Be Over 3:03
13 Lee Hazlewood - Souls Island 6:30
14 Tim Buckley - I Never Asked to Be Your Mountain
5:13
15 Daniel Kobialka - Blue Spirals 10:08 |
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2020 Pinnock/UNCUT
